Never forget how much the super-rich despise you. Never forget that the contempt they hold you in is worse because it isn’t even deliberate. Never forget that they are so out of touch, so insulated from the rancid trauma they have unleashed for much of this century, that their loathing of the proles is largely
Brandon Cronenberg s horror film Infinity Pool lets the intriguing concept of body doubles married to themes of crime and punishment and the class system, go to waste.
At a key moment in Brandon Cronenberg’s high-concept horror Infinity Pool, an unhinged woman (Mia Goth who else?) sits on a car bonnet and reads to a cornered writer (Alexander Skarsgård) a scathing review of his first and only novel. Cruel and unusual, you’ll agree, but that’s not the only punishment the writer has to worry about during a nightmarish sun holiday.